While Everyone Was At The Front Gate Of Are 51 Justin Min Sneaked In Through The Back And Got His Bentacles

the main reason Klaus needs to figure out the whole "channeling the dead" thing is so he can give Ben a hug

Robbie: why are you blue?

Justin: cause I’m a ghost

The sass level is high

Umbrella Academy cast reacting to their Pop Vinyls

piano ben

after the not-apocalypse, ben is kind of lost

he doesn’t really have any skills other than fighting, because he died pretty young

so ben is constantly jumping from hobby to hobby, trying to find something he likes

klaus suggests art, which ben does try, but it doesn’t really click for him

he keeps asking people what they like but none of the things they suggest really work? they’re either way too complicated or he just doesn’t really like them

but then vanya suggests he learns an instrument

at first he wanted to try the violin, because vanya already knows it and she could teach him

but then he decided that it’s too painful

(ive played the violin for a little. ouch my fingertips)

he also tries the saxophone and trumpet but no luck

then it hits him

the ultimate instrument. the one that if he knows how to play it, learning how to play another one wouldnt be as hard

that’s right its the fucking piano

if he learns it, he learn how to read music, he learns chords, he learns all of that music theory shit, hes basically music man at that point

piano it is

ben is actually pretty good, for somebody who’s been dead for over a decade

he starts out with all that basic shit, yanno? im not going to describe the process of learning piano and the stuff that comes with it. he learns piano okay

once he gets pretty good, like maybe fur elise level good

he plays with vanya

because she needs a piano accompanist for practice sometimes! and he can play the piano! its perfect

he learns a bunch of classical and contemporary music, but also the notes to songs and showtunes and stuff

so he can accompany klaus, because def sings at least a little bit

for fun, minimum.

it becomes a family thing they do

ben playing piano, vanya playing violin, and the rest either singing or dancing

or both

ben learns i think we’re alone now! because he loves his family

sometimes when ben is questioning if he’s alive or not he goes and plays the piano

they have a keyboard in the house, but after ben shows that he’s like, really serious about the piano they buy a piano

i want to say they buy a grand piano, but honestly i also kind of feel like ben would really like playing stand up pianos??

idk there really isn’t much of a difference, he enjoys both

eventually he starts teaching lessons, like vanya

instead of teaching at a music school or something he just has lessons in the mansion

so there’s often these little kids playing piano

and ben trying to show them the scales

ben writes a couple of his own songs at one point

he doesn’t really compose because he can never make the notes fit together in the right way, but sometimes just playing out a little melody he made up on the spot is really nice

additionally: he can play memes on the piano, and because he missed out on it in his previous life ben rickrolls his siblings a lot

five doesn’t understand why klaus is dying of laughter after ben starts playing a song

because he’s an old man who has little to no understanding of pop culture

in conclusion: ben plays piano and i love him

Justin’s reflection is an avotoast, don’t @ me

Seeking collaborators for Seven Umbrellas: A Super Unofficial Musical

For those of you who haven’t been following me/7U, hello! I’m an amateur theatre songwriter, and since last fall, I’ve been writing a Fringe-esque full-length musical adaptation of The Umbrella Academy Season 1 (with key bits of influence from the comics). With 90% of the score written, much of America still shut down, and Season 2 slated for July 31st, I thought now would be the time to throw together a polished album, reading, or series of videos of the material as a collaborative fan-filmy project!

I’m currently seeking folks with experience in singing/acting, media production, editing, music supervising, etc. to workshop this with. Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with rough demos of the first two songs as well as the corresponding pages in the current script so one could get a feel for the tone. Anyone who’s interested, please shoot me an email at 7uMusical@gmail.com for more info! I’m opening this up to the Internet at large, so feel free to share this post wherever and with whomever :)

actual footage of the hargreeves trying to teach their 58 year old brother to floss

I saw @itsthenovelteafactor’s post and I couldn’t resist.

So here are a couple of stupid fake tweets.

I really fucking love Ben Hargreeves.

TUA realized it was a mistake to not have Ben be a main character in season, so now he gets all the promos.

So I have this S2 theory based on the twitter post today.

What if the commission slyly put up missing posters in the time the Hargreeves landed so people would actively look for them, without knowing the actual reasoning? It would be much easier to track them down. Field agents can only do so much and this also might be why they changed appearance? To avoid detection and the commission, as well as blend in.